Antifa means anti-fascists and refers to a broad spectrum of groups. Republicans- including US President Donald Trump- are mulling whether to proscribe it as a terrorist organisation.
As far-right demonstrators gathered in Portland over the weekend to protest against Antifa—shorthand for anti-fascists—US President Donald Trump sent them a signal: Antifa, he said, could be designated a ‘terrorist’ organisation.
“If you are not a fascist—then you are Antifa,” the fliers read, arguing that anyone who opposes racism, white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, and the xenophobic, ultranationalist ideologies of the far-right “and our current administration” is an anti-fascist.
David Neiwert, a journalist and author of several books on the US far-right, said the country has “a whole bunch of young white males out there, all ginned up on white nationalism”.Trump’s threat to deem Antifa a ‘terrorist’ group follows on the heels of several similar comments by Republican lawmakers and officials.
In late July, Congressman Mark Green, a Republican from Tennessee, and Mark Walker, a Republican from North Carolina, introduced a separate resolution condemning “Antifa violence and recognising that it engages in domestic terrorism”. The events took place less than a week after the two-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, where a far-right participant plowed his car into a crowd and killed 32-year-old anti-racist marcher Heather Heyer.
On Saturday, the Dallas Police Department increased patrols in the city in anticipation of “possible violence in the downtown area”.
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